When Edward William "Ezra" Strickland was born in 1814, in Piney Grove Township, Sampson, North Carolina, United States, his father, Nathan Strickland, was 46 and his mother, Edith Smith, was 51. He married Elizabeth Thornton on 19 December 1843, in Smithfield, Johnston, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Sampson, North Carolina, United States in 1860 and Brogden, Wayne, North Carolina, United States in 1870. He died on 8 March 1897, in Grantham, Wayne, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Wayne, North Carolina, United States.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Great and Little Strickland (Westmorland) or Strickland Ketel and Strickland Roger (also Westmorland). The placenames derive from Old English stīrc ‘stirk, young bullock or heifer’ + land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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